The Way It Can Be

Musings & Meditations - Louis Evan Palmer

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Weather Weapons and International Law

It seems clear, as an increasing number of reports and credible sources
such as the Indian Government indicate, that we are in an era of massive
weather modification and that those facilities and that capability are being
used in a weaponized manner.

The leading creator and user of this capability is the USA but other
governments are complicit such as Australia; and all major governments guilty
through their acquiescent silence.

The attitude so far has been a fearful & helpless avoidance. It
seems clear that the weapon can be used to quell opposition as well as deliver
rain or heat and has been effective in the regard.

The legal arena is one area which is only recently being used and which
has been effective in other similar endeavours. A legal challenge would be much
more effective if launched by a government on behalf of its citizens for
damages caused by man-made weather modification. Legal challenges by major
environmental groups would also create pressure to stop this dangerous,
reckless activity.

Give notice to your federal or state government that you want to see
action in this regard. Action from US citizens is critical.

For more information, see links below.

To view the European Union (EU) document which brings HAARP
and similar electromagnetic
weapons into question, click
here. The actual wording at bullet point 24 in this telling
document states that the EU “considers HAARP by virtue of its far-reaching
impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal,
ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international
independent body before any further research and testing.” This reveling
document further states that the EU regrets the repeated refusal of the U.S.
government to send anyone to give evidence on HAARP.

To watch this engaging 15-minute CBC documentary online, click
here. For an even more detailed and revealing 45-minute History
Channel documentary on HAARP and other secret weapons used for electromagnetic
warfare, click
here.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Trump as a modern Huey Long

While they are many differences between Donald Trump and Huey Long, the
key similarities are that they are/were both populists and they are/were both
loathed by the power brokers. They led more of a movement than a political
faction and they both generated huge rallies. They both are running/ran for US president.

Huey Long spent a lot of time as a politician and civil servant. He became a master at making the system work for the everyman. He was
open-minded and a common sense person. He was a more radical populist than
Donald Trump. See the following link for background on Huey – www.hueylong.com

Donald Trump is known mostly as a business man and most recently, as a
political candidate. Donald Trump would do well to study and emulate the
main things that Huey Long stood for and his political techniques.
Unfortunately, Huey died young. The power elites that Huey antagonized and who
did their utmost to roil the people against him surely contributed to his early
demise from an assassin’s bullet.

Donald Trump can use the aspects of Huey’s
campaigns best suited to his own. Against great odds, Huey did well. Donald Trump can do the same. At a core message level, Donald and Huey are similar
people.

The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer, Trump as a new Huey Long, twicb.blogspot.com
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Monday, September 07, 2015

There are so many pending catastrophes, so many tipping points, that it seems almost futile to attempt to remedy anything. But we try. Hope and nothing else to do except the right thing pushes us along.

We worry about a nuclear exchange, about its immediate local damage, but also about the mid and long term effects of the pollution emitted. Yet it already may be too late just from the over 2000 test explosions that have take place since 1945.

To date, nuclear technology has been mostly a disaster. We generate power for which we pile up toxic waste that we can't safely dispose of. The plants themselves often resemble bombs ready to ignite if one or other accident or act of God or deliberate sabotage puts it into a meltdown. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukishima have spewed out enormous quantities of poisonous radioactive material.

From the furnaces of hell come depleted uranium shells that vaporize on impact and spread a sickening haze of toxic long-lasting nanoparticles. All spread world-wide by the winds, no place safe, no pristine haven. All people and all creation subject to the same sentence - death by poison and unmitigating hubris.

Can we not sue these trojan horse gifts of science out of existence by litigating the governments and private firms responsible? Can we not dissolve any ill-gotten legal protections that corrupt governments may have given themselves and their minions so they can foist these "gifts" on us?

We must try.

No Future with Nuclear, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, twicb
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

The charities plead for money and show the poor suffering children and others who see this will often observe that this is the result of over-population.

"Too many people" is not the problem; over-consumption and appropriation of resources by the few is the problem. There could be enough food if proper assistance & training & tools were available.

Given that, the other barriers would mostly fade away. Security is still needed but it would diminish in importance as the prosperity levels rose.

We could transform our cities with greenhouse roofs and retrofit our agriculture with a new old system of multi-culture. Food security including water is step one.

Not killing 90% of the people. Populations will drop on their own as they modernize.

Too Many People is not the Problem by Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Maple Leaf Flag. By any standard, it would be a momentous occasion, in any country. Except a country run by a leader and supporters who do not hold to the country as much as they hold to their own power, their political party and their nasty little perversions of history.

It is galling that one of the most distinctive and alluring of flags can be insulted by a desiccating neglect and the pettiness of those who would deny the whole to spite the part. They cannot deny that this neglect is politically motivated; that they ignore this anniversary because the leader of another party brought it forth. As expected, the Conservatives were obstinately against it.

The Conservative Party will never have the hearts of the nation because they are a bloodless lot who are always nursing a grievance or a slogan and constantly on the lookout for vengeance and some vile payback. They demonstrate through the decades that theirs is a withering party from whom nothing new issues and nothing good intentionally happens. They've boiled out the good in conservatism and left behind an enervating bitterness.

It will be up to ordinary Canadians to honour their flag on its 50th anniversary and its 100th and beyond, hopefully for the longest possible time.

The Pettiness of Power and the Canadian Flag, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http:\\twicb.blogspot.com
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Saturday, January 03, 2015

Let's do a thought experiment to try and explain how many of the statements in Zen and other equivalent philosophies can make sense. Like how can both the relative and the absolute co-exist?

First up, Time. Does time exist on its own? If time is a dependent experience or event or series of events then it doesn't exist outside of its dependencies. For example, change. If nothing changes then time does not exist.

Next, Mind or matter. Which one has primacy? If mind has primacy than matter is an outcome of mind or mental forces. Does this affect our perception of realness? Do they seem less real because now they are firmly within our influence or our realm of perception?

Then there's causality and sequentiality. If possibilities spin off their own universes and everything is happening simultaneously then a set of sad events or outcomes are offset by happy outcomes and all events have already happened if we step out of time.

If there are an infinite number of universes then the core or substrate is the same but what we perceive is defined by the boundaries we create or accept. And, everything that can happen has happened and it's up to us to exist fully in each timeless moment and do the best we can. And feelings and emotions are important and meaningless; a condiment to life.

Everything resolves into itselfness, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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Copyright 2015 Louis Evan Palmer He lives in Ontario Canada. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications.

Sunday, November 09, 2014

Right Remembrance by Louis Evan Palmer

A war is a crime. It is a thing that is both small and enormous and merciless and rending and unifying and simplfying but it is never a good thing regardless of the scale. The thing we should be remembering, re-remembering and analysing is how did each war happen? Who was involved directly and indirectly? How can they be stopped? How can they be prevented?

We see almost none of that on the various Remembrance days (or Veterans Day). We see individual heroic stories and carefully disguised articles depicting useless mindless destruction and state-fostered hate made to look glorious or altruistic. We see the "winners" gloating each year in recollections of varying length depending if there is an anniversary or some other marker.

We see almost no discussion of the causes of any given war or the lessons learned (usually the wrong ones) or how to prevent wars in general or any specific war. We see and hear the endless propaganda and lies interspersed with truths. Patriotism shields the perpetrators who walk free, often lionized. Their crimes buried along with the sacrificed. Lessons lost, ignored and subverted.

Right Remembrance, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

That search is very much like opening nesting dolls, wandering in houses of mirrors & trying to keep track of endless ripples in an unknown ocean.

If we agree, we can say that "I-ness" or "Being-ness" reflects a dance or conversation. It's an epiphenomenon. Maybe.

But we discover that our brain decides things for us unconsciously up to ten seconds before we are aware of it. Part of the dance. Offered up to our conscious self.

In one theory, it's the hemispheres of our brain that talk to one another and create awareness.

Yet, "who" is aware of the "conversation". Or, is "awareness" or "what" itself an illusion and what we are witnessing memory. What is memory then? "Who" remembers and who is aware of it?

No matter where you stop in the search for "Being-ness" there's always one more remove that is the "who" it is that's "aware". Either "awareness" itself is illusory and not really there or there is no "being-ness", or more precisely, no personal being-ness.

Perhaps it's a viewpoint within a universal consciousness and what appears to be a personal awareness is the "view" from a particular location, person, time. Everywhere and nowhere.

Where's Waldo's Self, The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer
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Avoid can range from flight to prescient planning but it always entails not having to go against whatever it is that one wanted to avoid. For example, the nebulous force referred to as "temptation".

When in the world of attachment and craving, it is better and smarter to avoid temptation than to resist it. Because resisting means it's there in force assailing the person or thing. There's always the sense of a battle. In this case, a lifelong series of battles unless one is devoid of attachments and cravings. The prospect of defeat and subjugation is greater and closer when actually engaged in battle than skirting the edges of it or viewing it dispassionately from a safe distance. It may not be today or tomorrow but the day after or the day after that.

You are the sand castle and temptation is the relentless tide. Avoid. Shun. Evade. Or, defeat will be your supper.

Resist or Avoid, The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Our life appears to be defined by illusion - not an illusion in the sense of not being real or not existing but an illusion in the sense that our life, "reality", is so different from what we think it is or how we think it came to be.

How many realities with vastly different causes look like the one we think we're in? What do we do to shape and color it?

It's especially evident and perplexing with things we take as axiomatic like space, time, identity. Each ubiquitous but ineffable. We define time is terms of motion and space. We define space in terms of matter and energy and time. We define identity in terms of space and boundaries and exchanges and interfaces and memories and feelings. Circling and spiraling and gyrating and vibrating. Remembering, both recording and recalling.

The things we experience and remember are changed through experiencing and remembering. Emotions affecting everything. Pain and pleasure present in almost every event. Pain making time go slower. Pleasure making it go faster. Meditation making time vanish.

Words that never existed. Words that change their meaning over time. Ideas that never existed. Ideas that we thought were ever-present but that had a birth in a history we didn't know. Words and Ideas that seem as real as an apple or a rock.

Looking at an object or a process and seeing a certain set of causes but realizing that any one of a hundred sets of causes would look he same.

Semblance with a thousand Causes, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be
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Monday, October 14, 2013

One of the frequent observations during the Watergate scandal was that if the United States had been a parliamentary democracy, the whole thing would have been resolved quickly via losing a vote of confidence followed by an election.

The same observation holds true now during the current American budget-related crisis (which is
more of a manufactured crisis than a real one). If the U.S. was a parliamentary democracy, it would
not have even been an issue as the party in power decides what the budget is and has primacy
in setting out economic policy. This unnecessary bargaining between the so-called executive and legislative functions would be done away with.

The set dates that have come with a presidential system also contribute to the dysfunction.
It devolves into constant fund-raising and it sets up the potential targets for any and all adversaries.
In effect, you know what your "target" will doing during the set terms. The North Vietnamese geared many of their ultimately successful efforts around presidential elections.

There are clearly Pros and Cons for both systems but the flaws of the presidential system are
deeper and more dangerous. They may, in fact, drag the whole world into an abyss.

Parliamentary System better than Presidential, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be
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Sunday, October 06, 2013

It's a construct of the age of capital - a person devoid of characteristics unrelated to the production of goods and services. People as units of work, cogs in a mechanical process, numbers in a formula. It has existed through history whenever there was a monumental project, but not in theory, only in practice for a special project; typically, a type of public building or conveyance.

However, as these things are wont, it had mutated into a theoretical construct where feelings of responsibility on the part of the owner are circumscribed by the tight bounds of the work itself. Nothing
beyond. Nothing substantive or heartfelt about communities, families or the future. Dribs and drabs of public relations, a list of varying lengths of checkboxes.

We now labour in the shadow of the "corporate person" as manifest by the pirate-like figures who
populate the executive suites. "Econo Man" struts or drudges his short time here and there, trying to stay afloat on the managerial trends that surge in and out. The real persons are lashed and prodded
by debt and its surrogates while the "corporate person" wiggles out of the normal obligations incumbent on a regular person. Enjoying the benefits, escaping the costs of accountability if big enough.

Since "econo man" is essentially the middle class, to preserve and improve society, we must protect and
encourage the middle class. This means less "bigness" - especially in governments, corporations and unions.

The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer, Econo Man

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Thursday, January 03, 2013

Modern medicine is approaching the time when it can grow a fetus to a full-term baby. When we can do that,
and safely store (i.e. freeze) the fetus, we could save and mature every fetus. No-one would die. The unfair assignment of blame and woe and evil to the unborn baby, especially in cases of forced sexual relations, would greatly diminish. There could be a much needed population boost in the advanced countries where abortion is more prevalent.

The deadly side of semantics would hopefully, for this area, fade away. Whoever says that words don't kill does not know anything about social dynamics. Words kill constantly and in myriad ways. The key is always to disguise the killing and stealing and suppression by calling it by another name, preferably righteous challenging words that discourage dissent; preferably words that can be shouted to resolutely drown out every contrary squeak.

Come good Future World and hold off the selfish malice and free the unjustly castigated.

Future World: No unwanted babies, no abortions, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

When one's sees or hears or reads about Jerry Sandusky & Lance Armstrong, one can't help being struck by their stolid unblinking claims of innocence in the face of numerous bonafide accusations & evidence about events and actions that took place over a long period of time. The 26+ statements from different members of the racing program of which Lance Armstrong was a part are brushed aside as disinformation and distortions. Some 10 victims came forward with evidence of abuse at the hands of Sandusky, yet, according to him, they're all lying and mistaken. Lance Armstrong won't testify or defend himself because it's gone all too long and he wants to move on. Jerry Sandusky claims the same, liars out to get him.

It does sound familiar as more of these psychopathic types are brought to justice. The abuse of power, the oblivious lying, the lack of guilt or remorse, lack of empathy; it goes on. We desperately need a simple way to detect psychopaths as they are a true menace to society.

Psychopathic Tendencies - Jerry Sandusky & Lance Armstrong, The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer
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Sunday, October 07, 2012

Canada apparently spent all that time and effort becoming independent of Great Britain for naught because in a twinkling, our Minister for External Affairs, the Loud, Bumbling John Baird has swept it away. Canada will now "share" embassies with Britain. No country or people will think less of Canada because of it, he tells us. It is not a return to colonialism. Canada will continue to have its own policies and not necessarily be aligned with Britain. But really, when those questions get asked, you're already there, you're already compromised. It doesn't matter how the embassy entrances look, is it to the left for Canada? It doesn't matter what the relative square footage will be for each "partner". It's a common law marriage in all but name. The perception regarding Canada's stature is devastating. It diminishes Canada in every way and on the world stage no less. Could Baird have picked a more damaging thing to do short of traipsing into another war with Mother Britain or Big Brother America? Hardly. The Conservatives rabid right is emerging into the broad daylight looking for enemies both foreign and domestic, firmly in the thrall of its historic me-first allies and their current political tendencies.

Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, Tweedledee & Tweedledum-mer - Canada & Britain Sharing Embassies
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Friday, August 10, 2012

When the modern Olympics were reconstituted in 1896, there were few, if any, international sporting events. Bringing athletes together every four years from a number of countries was a good exercise in peaceful relations and served to inspire people and athletes alike.

Nowadays, it seems superfluous. There are international & national federations for every Olympic event who hold large world-class competitions annually so that in any given year, an athlete in any given sport can compete several times a year at the very top levels.
Given that, we can safely say that the Olympics are superfluous from the perspective of affording world-class competition. In fact, the Olympics are un-necessary and extravagant when fans and supporters can easily go to world-class competitions of the sports they follow.

Why continue with these immensely costly exercises in civic and national pride when they add nothing to the opportunities available to top-notch athletes that can't be gained by enhancing their national and international sporting bodies at far less cost and effort?

Is it only for publicity's sake that we're assuming huge debts and creating huge security exposures? Is it the Olympics rituals and ceremonies that make us willing to go such great lengths to host these games? Is to feed national pride and build international stature? It's likely all three reasons and more; is it worth it?

Some of the sports have their own highly successful leagues and championships to which competing in the Olympics can only add confusion and risk. Soccer (or football) leaps to mind. Do we need more?

There may come a time when no city will bid to host the Olympics. It will be seen to be what it has become - extravagant and redundant.

Extravagant Redundant Olympics, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Nagarjuna famously said that everything is derived from mutual dependence. In trying to understand this statement, we can look at the "outputs" that define a person to us yet are, when we look at them, mere wisps. Words that issue from someone either spoken or written - which constitute the person to us, at the time, and we can record their words to give them more seeming weight and reality; but, in the end, they are disassociated fragments. The person, the entity, continues separately from the words that issue forth. The words may, or may not, mean anything to us; even if we understand them, they may be of little import to us. In all cases, they are not the "person" - they come from the person, they represent the person or their state of mind and feeling at the time, yet they have become "separate".

What we look at shares this disconnectedness. Our mind threads the stills we see into a moving reality. It eliminates the hole where our optic nerve disrupts the visual field. It reflects its training - training that we spent years learning when we were infants and young children and we could devote undivided attention to these things. Now, we don't know what we learned then and what determines what we see as our we see our expectations as much as what actually registers on our field of vision.

If we move towards our awareness itself and our sense of identity, we might find that it too is stitched together from singularities. We might find that like a motion picture, we create a fabric out of separate instances and that our memory and identity fade when the light of our awareness isn't shining on them. Is it that then that is the foundation? The abiding awareness that we notice from time to time but which weaves the world we know around us. Is it that awareness that strings together the innumerable vignettes that roll around us and in us? And, is there a larger world or beingness in which our consciousness swims?

Zeno of Elea delved into this arena with his pardoxes of plurality, motion and change See "Zeno's Paradoxes" edited by Wesley C. Salmon.

Can it be that when we scratch the surface, even a little, we strike a mystery? No matter where we look or when.

Motion-Pictyre Identity, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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Sunday, July 01, 2012

They can be viewed as the great silencers: open and hidden self-censoring mechanisms that we exercise against topics that threaten to disturb the peace and good order of our lives. They are broad categorizations that can place the potential speaker or actor under fire while at the same time, diminishing their ability to protect themselves or argue against ideas or claims that they disagree with. The swath of the sliencers varies but each one steps its way into our discourse and effectively places their respective areas out of our scope.

For example, "anti-semite" is used to place any discourse by non-Jews about jewish subjects or facts, other than carefully defined supportive statements, beyond the pale; "homophobic" performs the same function for comments or observations by non-homosexual persons about homosexuals. The off-limits topics keeps expanding: "racist" curbs anything other than bromides from being spoken. Even critics from within the group itself can be circumscribed by adding "self-hating" or some other similar adjective of denigration. "Anti" is a tried and true torpedo to the truth as in anti-American or anti-capitalist. As often as not, "peer-reviewed" becomes a bulwark of the conventional along with a tyranny of credentials which if taken to extremes would result in only a few people being able to "expertly" talk about various carefully circumscribed topics.

These weapons of discourse destruction are rife in all spheres of communication. Eyes and ears are constantly on the lookout for any of the proscribed elements, ready to pounce with their denunciations, safe in the sanction of society; a society full now of its very own army of self-appointed censors, of which the most important censorship is self-censorship which passes uncritically for cultivation. And the price of dissent or even disagreement is being raised until even death is an option and not just in the so-called authoritarian regimes.

The result will be an enduring silence punctuated by a low-level hum of society-approved opinions and self-correcting thoughts. True discourse will only occur in the sciences but even there orthodoxy and corporate objectives are dominating.

The Silencers, The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer, http://twicb.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

How can the truth be in a book? It would mean that the truth is in an abstraction and not in reality. It would mean the truth was tied to a language and not freely available. It would mean that the truth is tied to a time, the time the book was written in. It would mean the truth was tied to a place, the place the truth was written in. It would mean the truth is tied to writing and recording and reading and remembering. It would mean the truth was tied to interpreters and reciters.

How can the truth be in a place? It would mean the truth can be divided and measured and located. Power can be in a place but not truth.

How can truth be in any construct, any thought or word or place or thing? The truth is uncreated, boundless and timeless. Approximations and indications must not be confused with reality itself. At the end of an infinite string of "Not this" and "Not that" lies truth: there, before a single word is spoken, before a single thought or movement or feeling or image or sound - beyond, beyond, beyond beyond.

The Truth Is Not In a Book, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

In the future if it's "good", we may have all our basic, and even secondary, needs provided for. We may be able to do whatever we legally want. Legal may be expanded over what it is today.

It could easily be a world where all people are doing something related to a portrayal or an artistic creation: that is, you are either watching a production or event of some kind - sports, entertainment, education; or, performing in an event or production; or you're communicating about a production or event.

It would highlight "real" versus "contrived" but it might, in fact, highlight that the real life we're leading is more fiction (i.e. made up) than fact. Or, that there is no essential difference between acting something or supposedly "being" something if real life is actually a script like any other. It may be a script that's embedded and somewhat unconscious but nonetheless, it's created in an interaction between people and individuals and the surrounding world; it's a series of choices and accompanying actions.

If we strip away the layers and veneers, the only actions we take that are not in any way contrived are those related to food, shelter and clothing. Yet, even those have accreted their share of rituals and acting out. But, those ancilliary actions and words can only exist when the primal search for food, water, shelter and clothing is satisifed for today and several weeks into the future. "Roles" to do with those existential needs are the foundation for all that follows. Related to these fundamental needs is the need for safety and security of person and property - if you can't protect what's yours, you'll starve or freeze or die of thirst or die out. And, of course, the drive that nature imparts for procreation.

Is pretending (e.g. acting) intrinsically frivolous or wasteful or unproductive? Is it a bad use of time and energy? It is if it doesn't increase our knowledge of ourself, our society or existence in general. This leads us to who is doing the acting and who is doing the watching where acting's main purpose is to tell a story. What if the so-called "story" is incidental and the "being" of everything is the message? And, any story has that in it, as does ordinary living, if we could only see it or feel it.

So, acting and pretending and generally being unproductive is like everything else - it depends on who's doing it, who's witnessing it, what's needs to be done and if it's done, the society, the economy, the beliefs and probably, most of all, the attention and concentration that devoted to observing and understanding whatever we see and feel at all times whether it's supposedly "unreal" or, even more, if it's supposedly "real".

Pretending a World, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com

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Louis Evan Palmer lives in Ontario Canada. His short stories have been appeared in numerous publications. His novel OAKLANE WOODS is available from the Amazon Kindle Book Store as is a collection of short stories called TALES TOLD TO A TREE. New! A book of poetry - 40 POEM FRAGMENTS. Oaklane Woods is set in the fictional Ontario city of Middleton.